Does the location of leg pain suggest the location of arterial stenosis?
Leg pain usually occurs downstream from hemodynamically significant stenoses. For example, calf pain may result from disease of the superficial femoral artery, whereas thigh or buttock pain may be caused by iliac arterial disease.
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